anti-government fury flares into news here after the assassination of a prominent opposition figure which some are blaming on the ruling party. as clashes continue across syria reports emerge that rebel groups are again fighting each other despite western calls for them to unite to bring the syrian regime down . and under starters orders russia gets set to mark exactly a year to stage is what's become the most expensive and limpid games in history the report from the host city of sochi.

from a new center here in moscow this is r.t. with you twenty four hours a day with international news and comment in tunisia police have clashed with protesters and fired tear gas after angry mobs attacked the offices of the ruling islam as party thousands of taking to the streets across the country to protest against the government the public fury followed the assassination of the leading opposition figure. with some holding the government responsible the opposition has called for a general strike and four parties are suspending their membership in the country's lawmaking body international relations professor mark ullman says the government will be hard pressed to survive until the upcoming elections in june. tension between the opposition and the ruling party and has been growing for elections in a few months time in the two years since the revolution the economy and unity has taken a nosedive i was january and in addition to the tourist business has been dramatically

cut hotels empty until you have factories that used to supply components to european companies shot unemployment is rising to this it has been presented as the nearest thing to a success story to have. been too much violence but unfortunately as a savior to some disappointments with the failure to make life better life we got worse and the sense that there is a trajectory that takes many people in trinity away from what they wanted and to lose big tension about the coming elections or whether we'll get to those elections without a real political crisis on the streets and perhaps changing the government i want problem the poor ocean is here is that it doesn't have many natural resources so that it's rather neglected by the west as nobody has any great interest in trying to prop it up and so its regimes fall the colony is now in the nosedive and it's surrounded by recently tense hours to the east and south and it's getting no real help from them all this is if you were trying to position which

nations. before more analysis i'm not joined by political analyst danny makki he's on the line now from london where the country's president he's warned that the confrontation between islam is and those who want a secular state could actually lead to a civil war is that what we're seeing now. well i really think that this could act as a calculus for more violence and war and. of course to see what the hope of the arab spring and how one of the most fundamental conflict calling for change of democracy what we see now is a clear to lack of political leadership and has the brotherhood they don't really have a social program or an economic program and the failure of recent economic policies have really created a situation of fragmentation within fuses and this is an issue which probably will continue in the very near future. the assassination of the opposition figure. was essentially a continuation of the political differences which have been present in tunisia

throughout the recent years we would consider that unity would be one of the most stable our countries seeing in the arab spring i mean. this is essentially a manifestation of the greater strength within the arab world and what is happening within the meeting is magnified in the news you know where you have a muslim brotherhood regime which do not have the support of the majority of the people but if i think mainly secular and liberal opposition which will now be more united off of this recent assassination so you're talking about a lack of governance from the muslim brotherhood but it's only been two years since the uprising surely they should be given more time people are saying the same about egypt patience is needed rome wasn't built in a day is a saying. especially in that within the shadow of the arab spring and the recent changes with social through changes within the structure of our society it's not really an issue which can be given to any government or any regime because we don't live in an area where you have the arab street is so politicized that any small political change our political issue can create contempt and hatred within society

and this is essentially conveyed wouldn't museum now where you have mass protests and you get the government we have many calls for the government to resign and you have outrage public outrage against its isolation which has been deemed has been committed by people who have postings with the government this has been denied but this is important but this really shows our spring has not necessarily been a force the change is good it has been a force for aggression it has led to more back but policy and it showed that the muslim brotherhood they really have no tangible policies what they are and what they have done essentially replace the regime which they have supposedly overthrown and they have continued the same the same regressive and negative policies which have been undertaken by the previous us all right so what next then as you say there's clearly massive opposition now from liberalist and secularists all we're going to see another round of revolutions. well this is very interesting and in

fact this should be more social change and there is you could argue that there is a fracture element of society where you have decided to place on kind of a bench where you have liberalist secularist muslim brotherhood and you have to come here and even though i'm not basement be moderate islam is it is supported by the front of me i have to think that all the muslim brotherhood regimes in the region so i think the media could really be news. for political stability in the violence and one which would have repercussions all over the arab world we understand that the council has a very big power because you can use yeah has been funding the government very clearly look at the conference attendees very advocate of jihad in syria i'm the advocates that make regimes all over the arab world so now we listen i these are the sorts of which is intensifying between a million brotherhood leaders in the arab world and the governments your neighbor of a secular opposition just very important should tap into that if now we have a coalition of liberal and secular opposition to really form

a majority status quo through the minority mr brotherhood rating but what is interesting just reading on the was now the tunisian prime minister is going to dissolve the government and form a national unity cabinet was saying a response there which we're not seeing a response of that like in egypt the moment all we what what does that tell you of how the tunisian authorities are responding to this latest crisis. i think this is more of a reaction to it that there was a bit happening recently they want to kind of stem the flow of public outrage. in regard to whether it will work or not i think that remains to be seen but there is a problem because the british there is a stigma attached to the government it is the muslim brotherhood government it has very conservative policies one which is in its incompatible with community a secular and kind of out very liberal nature so this is a problem with it so there can be really no forward policy which. is old kind of public outrage will they change the government or not the stigma of the extremist

muslim brotherhood will always be attached to the current freezing government and this is an issue which they really have to address but i think this won't be enough for the people who are protesting in the streets today and this show that they are street and especially the secular more liberal street which has been overlooked throughout the crisis throughout the arab spring by the west most of all should really now be a force for change and this should be really be. a forward looking major too with democracy within the arab world where you have a loyal opposition but an opposition based on liberal lists and secularists and not muslim brotherhood extremist governments danny thank you very much dave your thoughts danny makki political analyst live from london grow. heavy clashes erupted in syria's capital damascus rebels launched attacks on army checkpoints in the regime controlled part of one of its neighborhoods in the reports of surface again the fighting among the rebels themselves in chief of the syria tribune online blog dr ali mohammed has told me earlier that the western backed opposition is fooling themselves if they think they'll be able to control all the rebel militias

it's just funny it's just like all of this will be like her and the sun will be nicer ones different than it is now and that's muslims really have it easy they cannot actually called for victims and they try even when the u.s. listed that's it on its black list the will not of defending it. because they know they cannot control it so nor be because lucian is dreaming of the believe that they can control the groups dr tarpley to believe in the arts inning and the most important part is that these are the princes and they are well if you created people they are not full of the shows they are not the fighters for freedom they are just work princes and the coalition will only be able to do what its founder and main think. entity will ask them to do and if they don't do that they will lose this financing really because the support so they have to do this and simply have

they don't know how to hold and they cannot because they are not united and they don't have the same view was so it's a big mess and yet the west would like to see this big mess fall in become three. it's predicted the outcome of this year's general election in germany could be majorly swayed by the candidates differing approaches towards the greek economic crisis and america's main challenge of the country's former finance minister says she's being simply too harsh on athens. reports. the main contender to angola merkel in this year's general election the social democrat party's peacetime brooke has said this his vision for how to deal with the greek problem is to give greece a little bit more time and for everybody else around the world to be essentially willing to spend a little bit more money now that includes germany of course this goes up against what has been angola merkel's message all the way which is that it's all by austerity and by a sturdy alone and cutting that deficit. that greece can get itself financially

back on its feet now what is interesting is that in the german elections we're seeing the key battleground becoming greece. now one of the reasons that we've seen the s.t.p. . jump on this is because essentially they smell blood he said himself after the most recent local elections which took place last month that's change was possible this year and in order and one of the reasons he can say that is his party is absolutely killing angle merkel's coalition when it comes to domestic issues if you speak to the german people one thing they will all tell you is what the vast majority will tell you is that they do support angola merkel's view when it comes to dealing with the euro crisis what we're now seeing is peacetime saying i'm going to challenge angle merkel on her own turf and put forward my own theory about how to deal with greece. of the years of preparations sleepless nights and hard work russia has something to celebrate tomorrow the official countdown to the twenty

fourteen winter olympics begins the games have already broken the record books becoming the most expensive ever stage on his hundred farm reports on the changing face of the host city of sochi. piece by piece sort she's a limp dick dream is coming together continues around the clock but with a year to go things are shaping up fast and the company in charge of construction has a simple message despite building everything from scratch russia will be ready and . we plan to introduce all the facilities before the games start training facilities are ready practically all of them of host to test competitions all hotels and olympic villages are in the final phase of construction being referred and furnished the show jewels to open in the autumn we plan to complete construction long before the end of the year so personal can train and managers can gain experience in providing a good service but it cheating this goal has come at

a staggering price hosting these games is costing around fifty billion dollars making them the most expensive in the in pick history they cost ten times more than the last winter games in vancouver and ten billion dollars more than the beijing summer games however the results can already be seen and they are impressive if you do take a quick look around you can see what money can buy at the center of the limping which is six pennies all within a stone's throw of each other to host the curling the skating and the ice hockey and this is the jewel in the crown the bolshoi i stay inside this past hockey arena is pristine and ready for use it will stage the under eighteen world championships in april going to keep dozen international events that will test all in the venue before the games begin the cycle for thought she twenty fourteen is hot cool your top because the park is down by the black sea i'm cold because all the alpine

events or take place just forty kilometers away. it is a similar story there not much was here before but there are also couture resorts has sprung up from nowhere to become the home of our. feinstein biathlon and cross-country courses have also been created along with the bobsled track and then there's something you can't fail to meet but if you make your way down the mountain will eventually come to hey one of the most dramatic sights at any winter olympics the ski jumping the larger ramp on the left hand side is for the men on the smaller one on the right is for the women he will be competing for the very first time in this event at an olympics next year. linking the so-called mountain in coastal clusters has not been easy over five hundred kilometers of am rail lines have been laid and they have transformed infrastructure but the city mayor believing the region will reap the benefits for years to come. our residents are aware of the

conditions they have to face during changes especially on this scale we certainly have many inconveniences because there's not a single street in sochi without renovation going on the roads are regularly dug up which causes traffic jams all the time however the residents are aware that it's necessary for their future a brilliant future. she has undergone huge change in just six years but the transformation is almost complete and the black sea resort believes it can and will deliver against remember this time next year and.

coming up in a couple of minutes here and a lack of medical care a public inquiry is in health britain's health care system and a massive negligence and abuse me the details and only decals of witnesses shortly . after the break. more news today violence is once again flared up. and these are the images.

from the streets of canada. operations to rule the day. it continues here naughty britain's prime minister david cameron has formally apologized for the health care scandal surrounding a major hospital public. swades of negligence and abuse cases at the facility involving hundreds of patients and the reports claims of the ruthless mistreatment

of those in need are increasingly being heard right across the country. my wife started hospital in september two thousand and eight to disaster to a total chaos when you walked through the doors of the war you could smell a. crime you know stuff from very little. that was left. over into months new shoes on the floor we've been there since breakfast on. the. line right for you see. maybe kay who wasn't given to the death of john's wife is just one of the many horror stories to match from the now notorious stuff that hospital relatives say it was a lack of compassion on behalf of the staff that stripped many sick people of their dignity so much evil that sandy would describe people not just in.

song. in the most horrible sense seems. to. be she'd have to go through what she went through julie baby's mother died at stafford in what she calls appalling circumstances but when she blew the whistle on the hospital's practice says she was faced with a cover up all the evidence was there that the hospital mid staffs was failing and yet the that was never shared with the public and i believe the same as in all the hospitals it's so much that a string of senior officials failed to take seriously data which showed the hospital significantly higher than average death rates relatives of over a thousand people never got to see them discharged from the hospital patients died needlessly off the suffering a catalogue of neglect left in their own excrement dehydrated and without painkillers it's the biggest scandal to hit the national health service in recent

years but with budgets being slashed and red tape preoccupying hospital manages. since health secretary is warning that there are little bits of stafford dotted all across the u.k.'s health system the results of the public inquiry into the hospital's failings are expected to issue a damning verdict on the way the whole of the n.h.s. functions is soul destroying. that's a bit of stuff that every writer got to make say you know it's got to be made safe tomorrow because people can't continue to suffer but even with the glare of a public inquiry and the media spotlight it hasn't stopped last month it emerged that a former fold baby being treated for breathing problems was found with a dummy taped to his mouth to keep him quiet the nurse being investigated for the incident is the third member of staff at star to be disciplined in the last six months the hospital's chief executive has said we're sorry that despite the progress that has been made there are still some instances of care which fall below

that which we want to provide sorry might be too late but the tide of public anger swelling campaigners say it's time for westminster to overhaul britain's beleaguered health service before any more lives and needlessly lost polly boyko r t stafford. by the way you can stay up to speed with all the news from around the world by logging on to our website dot com now here are some of the stories that are waiting for you there right now the ever watchful social network a new application is being developed by facebook which is able to track a user's location even when it's switched off and to boldly go a group of russian scientists plunging into a frozen siberian lake escaping from the current outside temperatures in the region of minus fifty degrees celsius the footage and much more for you where to be right now at r.t. dot com. he told me which. programs

and documentaries in arabic it's all here on our team reporting from the world talks of peace. treaty story to tell you. the arabic to find out more visit are a big dog t.v. dot com. u.k. government is said to be considering the use of special black boxes to record people's internet activities all in the name of national security but the plans of god privacy advocates up at all means a call of the deputy director of big brother or watch organization says the proposal must be further started before being applied u.k. government seems to think that it's necessary to monitor the communications of every person in great britain rather than actually looking for the people who are actually committing crimes that are going to drive those people further and further

underground of the internet and they're only going to capture the the innocent and the incompetent as far as i'm concerned not by any means saying that communications data isn't important but when you have the director general of m i five talking about the evidence that was used to make this spill and calling it pretty horrific assumptions that we've been made that the m i five obviously going to need this information and will react to this information if they saying that this bill isn't based on fact it's based on fun see full. imitations of facts and this is why we need to go and have a very hard look at this bill get more evidence have a much further in-depth consultation to actually get the facts about what is needed and how it can be done. now to some other news from around the world at this stage today in spain students of stage a second day of a general strike against a massive cuts in education announced by the government the prime minister mariano rajoy is facing corruption allegations while the opposition is calling for him to

step down spain the fourth largest economy in the euro zone is struggling to deal with the financial crisis with unemployment levels now standing at an unprecedented twenty six percent. french military assisted by local militia has taken control of over kid dial that's the last major city in my need to be held by islamist militants parasites to me it's that several hundred rebels have been killed since the offensive began in the country last month while the advance has been swift some reports suggest the french led liberation campaign has also caused mounting civilian casualties the french foreign minister has hinted the operation may be over by march. turbulence exploding engines a lack of fuel all of them a threat to a smooth flight and increasingly it seems drunk russian passengers can now be added to that list in the last few days alone a number of planes have been forced to make emergency landings because of boozed up travelers putting people's lives at risk now there's talk of

a possible prohibition in the skies that is. discovered. your seat belts are fastened the tray table is securely stowed and the passenger next to you is not intoxicated out of his mind passport ticket and alcohol of course there's a lot of there wasn't for have a drink on board but that doesn't stop many passengers if there is a will there is always a way to sneak that bottle on the plane. recently cases of unruly drunks have been springing up one after another one man attacked a police officer in the v.i.p.'s zone in the moscow airport thinking he was still in another country a different man if the four year old businessman on his way to the egyptian resort of god that lit up a cigarette and literally hit back at a flight attendant who tried to stop him the confrontation spiraled into an all out brawl on board should anybody have known table long pretty much he was demanding

something crazy he was forcing himself into a cockpit everyone was trying to hold him back and he was yelling let me and forcing his way into the pilot's seat. here's the catch though the resume normal in russia that would allow airlines to restrain much less to punish unruly customers in fact flight attendants technically are not even allowed to physically subdue anyone having a fit of rage on an airplane and that doesn't fly over well with the country's main airline that used up national could mean we could buy them once our crews on board to be able to restrain such passengers we need a law for that and we also want to mince to the current code which would allow not just their flag but all air carriers to be able to refuse service to pass injuries or have created a problem on board passengers like that yama in the leg honeymooners chris forced a plane heading for thailand to land in his deck a stand it was after their festive mood quickly soured and turned into

a fight when a flight attendant told them to cut down on the liquor consumption they stated to. the reasons for drinking fear following and celebrating their marriage this type of emotional travel drinking has gotten the russian lawmakers thinking very seriously so we not too distant future it seems passengers will be able to keep their emotions bottled up in moscow even ghost our team. so that brings up to day from n.p.r. not a coming up piece of the bell and his guests focus on the future of embattled syria stay with us for that let's off the break. up.

to speed for language. programs and documentaries in arabic it's all here on. the team from the world talks about six of the ip interviews intriguing stories are used. in trying arabic to find out more visit arabic dot all tito it's called. the world of. science technology innovation all the latest developments from around russia we've got the future of coverage.

lucky . little. live . live. let me see.